{"product_id":"modern-irish-american-fiction-a-reader-paperback","title":"Modern Irish-American Fiction: A Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Casey\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobert Rhodes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflected in these writings from twenty-one Irish Americans are the themes common to all immigrant literature, but from the authors' own ethnic point of view. The struggle for success forms the underlying structure in the stories by O'Hara, Curran, and McCarthy; and the changing values the New World imposes on the individual are seen in Edwin O'Connor's \"Grand Day for Mr. Garvey.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrish wit and black humor pepper all the stories, as represented by Dunn's bartender-philosopher, \"Dooley,\" and Donleavy's \"Fairy Tale of New York.\" Catholicism is omnipresent and is often characterized by the priest, as in Fitzgerald's \"Benediction,\" Power's \"Bill,\" and Flaherty's Fogarty\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eThemes that have an immense effect on the characters' relationships are their difficulties in communicating with one another, which Gill captures succinctly in \"The Cemetery,\" and the repositioning of gender roles, so evident in Cullinan's \"Life After Death\" and in Costello's \"Murphy's Xmas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, there are the intense, often contradictory, feelings the characters have toward their \"homeland\" Hamill's \u003cem\u003eGift\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates the desire to rid Ireland of British rule; Gordon's \"neighborhood\" shows the immigrants' embarrassment over their origins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors Casey and Rhodes have organized these pieces chronologically, beginning at the turn of the century. Thus, the selections illustrate the progression of Irish-American literature and also fulfill the word of William Kennedy, who said of his own writing: \"those who came before helped to show me how to turn experience into literature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Andrew Greeley's 1971 article, 'The Last Of the American Irish Fade Away, ' ends on the sanguine note that perhaps it really is not so, most of what he writes is to substantiate the claim of the title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.79 x 9.35 x 6.41 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 1989\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52522098753843,"sku":"9780815602347","price":39.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OS9GRzJwZDhOcFZaZ0YxZUdCVjU2QT09.webp?v=1760543753","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/modern-irish-american-fiction-a-reader-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}